On May 1, 2:14 am, Galad Damodred <crapats...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 1, 11:38 am, Brinner <keating.br...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Nope, there were no direct attempts.
>
> Dude, are you sure you're reading the Wheel of Time and not something
> else? ;-)
>
> Here are a number of instances when gray men (specialist hired
> assassins of the DO) had tried to kill Rand.
>
> Gray Men are men (and rarely women) who have given their souls to the
> Dark One. As such, they are almost unnoticeable. They are used as
> assassins because they can sneak up on their victims without being
> detected.
>
> TGH,Ch9 - A Gray Man, admitted to Fal Dara by Ingtar, attempts to
> assassinate Rand. He misses, wounding Siuan Sanche and killing another
> man.
> TGH,Ch46 - Ingtar acknowledges admitting the Gray Man that tried to
> kill Rand.
> TDR,Ch3 - Boys resembling Rand on Almoth Plain have been mysteriously
> murdered, probably by Gray Men.
> TSR,Ch9 - A Gray Man attacks Rand as he talks with Lanfear.
> TSR,Ch10 - Three more Gray Men who were part of the attack on Rand
> were killed by the Aiel guards.
> TSR,Ch50 - After the Trolloc and Draghkar attack, Rhuarc orders a
> guard for Rand because the Soulless may come next.
> LoC,Ch20 - Aviendha tells Rand that Melaine and Amys dreamed of a man
> standing by his side with a dagger to his throat, but Rand did not see
> him. Rand thinks that this means a Gray Man.
> LoC,Ch28 - A Gray Man attacks Rand in the Royal Palace but Mazrim Taim
> destroys it. Later, Fain is furious when he hears about the attack. He
> wants Rand for himself.
> LoC,Ch42 - Taim tells Rand that he has not been in Caemlyn since the
> day he saved Rand from the Gray Man.
>
> http://encyclopaedia-wot.org:8008/creatures/gray_man.html
Every single one of these was a distraction or a trick by a FS to get
him to come after him. Not one was an actual attempt.
Think about it logically:
If the FS were not under orders to kill Rand and knew enough about his
whereabouts to send Trollocs or what not, they could have travelled
Balefired and then left. If they had done this they would have been
serious trouble with the DO.
So what to do when you want Rand dead??? Hmmmmm, send a few Trollocs
or a Draghkar or a Gray who you know 100% he can handle and hope he
comes after you, that way you can innocently claim self defence.
Brinner
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